Besotted

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Some infatuations are so explosive it takes years for the dust to settle... Twin brothers Michael and Kieran are visiting their grandparents in County Cork. It's 1982 and the summer is oppressive, the community tense and the family chaotic in a way that only outsiders find enchanting. At sixteen the boys are on the brink of life - but the entanglements of the holiday are to cloud their future in ways they can't imagine. Returning to their ramshackle Cheltenham home, the brothers don't know whether to call themselves English or Irish. Years later, the fiery young woman unannounced on Michael's doorstep doesn't know which of them to call her father...

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"A dazzling debut." --Irish Independent
"Moves with a dreamy seamlessness . . . A mature, articulate novel." --Metro

Author Bio

Joe Treasure was born in Cheltenham and studied English at Oxford. He haslived in California and in Wales, and is a graduate of Royal Holloway's Creative Writing MA. His first novel, The Male Gaze, was published by Piador in 2007.